MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a weather system taking aim at the Southeast U.S.

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Hurricane Humberto had maximum sustained winds of 145 mph Saturday, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory. The storm was located about 375 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. It was moving west at 6 mph.

Humberto could produce life-threatening surf and rip currents for the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Bermuda over the weekend, forecasters said.

Meanwhile, a weather system likely to develop into a tropical storm over the weekend was threatening parts of the Bahamas and Cuba with heavy rainfall and

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